#miniature watercolor

[arthistoryanimalia]

#WatercolorWednesday:

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat [Changthangi*]

India, Mughal dynasty, c.1601-25

Opaque watercolor, ink, gold on paper

37.9 × 25.6 cm (14 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.)

The Art Institute of Chicago 1919.944: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76868/portrait-of-a-ladakhi-mountain-goat

🆔 “The Changthangi [aka Changpa, Ladakh Pashmina, Kashmiri] is a breed of cashmere goat native to the high plateaus of Ladakh in northern India. It is closely associated with the nomadic Changpa people of the Changthang plateau….The intense cold of the region causes the goats to grow a thick undercoat, which is harvested to produce the fine pashmina grade of cashmere.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changtha

#IndianArt #SouthAsianArt

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Right Eye of Miss Peggy Hawthorne.

Artist: English School (British)

Date: 1793

Medium: Watercolor on ivory

[tiny-glued-things]

A miniature pad of watercolor paper (1:12 scale). The first sheet has a painting by my mom.

[itscolossal]

A Veritable Aviary of Birds and Pollinators by The Paper Ark Are Small Enough to Perch on the Tip of a Finger

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[uispeccoll]

#MiniatureMonday #TinyTuesday

A Mushroom ABC. by Peter and Donna Thomas

For the beginning of summer, MiniMondays is going to have a series focusing on a small fraction of the lovely artists books by Peter and Donna Thomas!

For our book after a long weekend, we have some lovely illustrations of mushrooms in an ABC accordion book!

"Printed watercolors on one side of an accordion folded handmade sheet (50 x 150 mm.), shaped to resemble a mushroom. First and last folded leaves mounted on two paper boards, covered with gray paper, and also shaped as a mushroom. Title paper label on front cover. Issued in a slipcase covered with paper and with a mylar front cover that reveals the shaped binding."--Catalog

Peter and Donna Thomas are "book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work both collaboratively and individually; letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books." They have made over 100 limited edition books, often with Peter making the paper, and Donna doing the illustrations.

Check out more of Donna and Peter's books at Uiowa here.

--Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student

[desimonewayland]

A Man Consumed by Flames 🔥 c. 1610

Issac Oliver (c.1565-1617)

Watercolour and bodycolour on velum with gold.

Collection: Ham House, National Trust

Text on painting: Alget qui non ardet. ‘He grows cold who does not burn’

[empirearchives]

Miniature watercolor portrait of Josephine Bonaparte, c. 1804-09

By Jean-Baptiste Isabey

Location: Harvard Art Museums

[sauce-central]

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Credit if used!

[lil-gingerbread-queen]

Later, Bruce finds him climbing the cave to join the bats.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #NationalMothWeek:

Mughal miniature of an Atlas Moth, dated to the reign of Jahangir (r.1605-1627)

Brush in colors, black, white & gold, gouache, on paper; sheet H 214 mm × W 152 mm

Rijksmuseum RP-T-1993-116

[funsizeart]

Potoo bird. Watercolour, 3x3 inches

[yebreed]

Qing Dynasty Comic Book: Illustration Set for Pu Songling Strange Tales

Qing dynasty comic: a set of illustrations for Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio (聊齋志異) by Pu Songling (蒲松龄). It is a collection of short stories about the supernatural, a genre popular in China for several centuries, featuring wizards, foxes and ghosts.

Archived in Austrian National Library.

Photo: ©艺术通史

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[nairanorica]

And here's the postcard design I made for the event! It's quite big for me (A5) and it was so much fun. There was so much space to put little details and play with paint! Also very fun to create this little "monster researcher sona".

How many monsters can you spot/recognize? (I'll put the answer in the tags, but still)

Also comparison of original and printed postcards under the cut:

I'm really happy how they turned out :D

[fashionsfromhistory]

Portrait of a Lady by Henry Inman & Thomas Seir Cummings, c.1825

The MET (Accession Number: 1996.562)